¹ 耶和華在西乃山曉諭摩西的日子，亞倫和摩西的後代如下：

² 亞倫的兒子，長子名叫拿答，還有亞比戶、以利亞撒、以他瑪。

³ 這是亞倫兒子的名字，都是受膏的祭司，是摩西叫他們承接聖職供祭司職分的。

⁴ 拿答、亞比戶在西乃的曠野向耶和華獻凡火的時候就死在耶和華面前了。他們也沒有兒子。以利亞撒、以他瑪在他們的父親亞倫面前供祭司的職分。

⁵ 耶和華曉諭摩西說：

⁶ 你使利未支派近前來，站在祭司亞倫面前好服事他，

⁷ 替他和會眾在會幕前守所吩咐的，辦理帳幕的事。

⁸ 又要看守會幕的器具，並守所吩咐以色列人的，辦理帳幕的事。

⁹ 你要將利未人給亞倫和他的兒子，因為他們是從以色列人中選出來給他的。

¹⁰ 你要囑咐亞倫和他的兒子謹守自己祭司的職任。近前來的外人必被治死。

¹¹ 耶和華曉諭摩西說：

¹² 我從以色列人中揀選了利未人，代替以色列人一切頭生的；利未人要歸我。

¹³ 因為凡頭生的是我的；我在埃及地擊殺一切頭生的那日就把以色列中一切頭生的，連人帶牲畜都分別為聖歸我；他們定要屬我。我是耶和華。

¹⁴ 耶和華在西乃的曠野曉諭摩西說：

¹⁵ 你要照利未人的宗族、家室數點他們。凡一個月以外的男子都要數點。

¹⁶ 於是摩西照耶和華所吩咐的數點他們。

¹⁷ 利未眾子的名字是革順、哥轄、米拉利。

¹⁸ 革順的兒子，按著家室，是立尼、示每。

¹⁹ 哥轄的兒子，按著家室，是暗蘭、以斯哈、希伯倫、烏薛。

²⁰ 米拉利的兒子，按著家室，是抹利、母示。這些按著宗族是利未人的家室。

²¹ 屬革順的，有立尼族、示每族。這是革順的二族。

²² 其中被數、從一個月以外所有的男子共有七千五百名。

²³ 這革順的二族要在帳幕後西邊安營。

²⁴ 拉伊勒的兒子以利雅薩作革順人宗族的首領。

²⁵ 革順的子孫在會幕中所要看守的，就是帳幕和罩棚，並罩棚的蓋與會幕的門簾，

²⁶ 院子的帷子和門簾（院子是圍帳幕和壇的），並一切使用的繩子。

²⁷ 屬哥轄的，有暗蘭族、以斯哈族、希伯倫族、烏薛族。這是哥轄的諸族。

²⁸ 按所有男子的數目，從一個月以外看守聖所的，共有八千六百名。

²⁹ 哥轄兒子的諸族要在帳幕的南邊安營。

³⁰ 烏薛的兒子以利撒反作哥轄宗族家室的首領。

³¹ 他們所要看守的是約櫃、桌子、燈臺、兩座壇與聖所內使用的器皿，並簾子和一切使用之物。

³² 祭司亞倫的兒子以利亞撒作利未人眾首領的領袖，要監察那些看守聖所的人。

³³ 屬米拉利的，有抹利族、母示族。這是米拉利的二族。

³⁴ 他們被數的，按所有男子的數目，從一個月以外的，共有六千二百名。

³⁵ 亞比亥的兒子蘇列作米拉利二宗族的首領。他們要在帳幕的北邊安營。

³⁶ 米拉利子孫的職分是看守帳幕的板、閂、柱子、帶卯的座，和帳幕一切所使用的器具，

³⁷ 院子四圍的柱子、帶卯的座、橛子，和繩子。

³⁸ 在帳幕前東邊，向日出之地安營的是摩西、亞倫，和亞倫的兒子。他們看守聖所，替以色列人守耶和華所吩咐的。近前來的外人必被治死。

³⁹ 凡被數的利未人，就是摩西、亞倫照耶和華吩咐所數的，按著家室，從一個月以外的男子，共有二萬二千名。

⁴⁰ 耶和華對摩西說：你要從以色列人中數點一個月以外、凡頭生的男子，把他們的名字記下。

⁴¹ 我是耶和華。你要揀選利未人歸我，代替以色列人所有頭生的，也取利未人的牲畜代替以色列所有頭生的牲畜。

⁴² 摩西就照耶和華所吩咐的把以色列人頭生的都數點了。

⁴³ 按人名的數目，從一個月以外、凡頭生的男子，共有二萬二千二百七十三名。

⁴⁴ 耶和華曉諭摩西說：

⁴⁵ 你揀選利未人代替以色列人所有頭生的，也取利未人的牲畜代替以色列人的牲畜。利未人要歸我；我是耶和華。

⁴⁶ 以色列人中頭生的男子比利未人多二百七十三個，必當將他們贖出來。

⁴⁷ 你要按人丁，照聖所的平，每人取贖銀五舍客勒（一舍客勒是二十季拉），

⁴⁸ 把那多餘之人的贖銀交給亞倫和他的兒子。

⁴⁹ 於是摩西從那被利未人所贖以外的人取了贖銀。

⁵⁰ 從以色列人頭生的所取之銀，按聖所的平，有一千三百六十五舍客勒。

⁵¹ 摩西照耶和華的話把這贖銀給亞倫和他的兒子，正如耶和華所吩咐的。

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Depart, go up from here, you and the people that you have brought up out of the land of Egypt, to the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, 'I will give it to your seed.'

² I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:

³ to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way."

⁴ When the people heard this evil news, they mourned: and no one put on his jewelry.

⁵ Yahweh said to Moses, "Tell the children of Israel, 'You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up into your midst for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.'"

⁶ The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.

⁷ Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it "The tent of Meeting." It happened that everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp.

⁸ It happened that when Moses went out to the Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, everyone at their Tent door, and watched Moses, until he had gone into the Tent.

⁹ It happened, when Moses entered into the Tent, that the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and spoke with Moses.

¹⁰ All the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent, and all the people rose up and worshiped, everyone at their Tent door.

¹¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. He turned again into the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, didn't depart out of the Tent.

¹² Moses said to Yahweh, "Behold, you tell me, 'Bring up this people:' and you haven't let me know whom you will send with me. Yet you have said, 'I know you by name, and you have also found favor in my sight.'

¹³ Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you, so that I may find favor in your sight: and consider that this nation is your people."

¹⁴ He said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."

¹⁵ He said to him, "If your presence doesn't go with me, don't carry us up from here.

¹⁶ For how would people know that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Isn't it in that you go with us, so that we are separated, I and your people, from all the people who are on the surface of the earth?"

¹⁷ Yahweh said to Moses, "I will do this thing also that you have spoken; for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name."

¹⁸ He said, "Please show me your glory."

¹⁹ He said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of Yahweh before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy."

²⁰ He said, "You cannot see my face, for man may not see me and live."

²¹ Yahweh also said, "Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock.

²² It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by;

²³ then I will take away my hand, and you will see my back; but my face shall not be seen."